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High · Alternative · Grades 9 to 12

UCS Alternative Learning Center, Sterling Heights, MI

CEP schoolUCS Alternative Learning Center is a public high school in Sterling Heights, part of Utica Community Schools. It enrolled 245 students in 2024-25, with 18.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
245
Teachers (FTE)
13.0
Students per teacher
18.8
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 0.9 higher than the district figure of 17.9. The Michigan average across schools is 16.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school18.8
District17.9
Michigan16.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
7600 18 Mile Rd, Sterling Heights, MI 48314
County
Macomb County
Level
High
Type
Alternative
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
263447008727
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
165
Reduced-price lunch
9
Free or reduced-price lunch
17471.0% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other high schools in Utica Community Schools

High schools elsewhere in Sterling Heights

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.